“What gun should I get to keep in the house?” I’ve heard that question a hundred times or more during the last couple of decades. When your friends and co-workers find out you are a ‘gun guy’ you become the de facto expert on guns. Having been a Marine, Police Officer, and Small Arms Instructor for the military I get that question on a regular basis. Back in the late nineteen-eighties and early nineties my patent answer was to purchase a mid-sized double-action revolver in .38 Special or .357 Magnum with a stainless steel finish. The S&W “K” frame or something similar was the specific answer. Diehard gun people aren’t the ones asking the house gun question, it’s the novice…